In conversation between Meza-León and Iturriaga at the Latino Comics Expo 2025 they discuss their creative journeys, the making of Batman Azteca, and the future of Latinx storytelling in animation.

oday’s white-optic televisual landscape teems with what I call white-regenerative narratives—stories in which worn-out, broken, or morally adrift white dudes are reinvigorated through contact with Brown suffering.

I wanted to conceive of the future in a radically different way. One where the new gens look to philosophy, literature, art & science. . .

While the borderlands shape each protagonist differently, their individual stories thread together to form a greater tapestry.